Days after his brother pleaded guilty to participating in a fatal shooting at a Conroe park in 2013, prosecutors dropped a capital murder charge against Julian Williams, who was 20 at the time of the shooting.

Williams, however, will spend the next 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to an unrelated tampering with physical evidence charge stemming from a January 2014 arrest. Williams was one of four suspects charged in the shooting death of 19-year-old Conroe High School graduate Geovany Ponce-Reyes in June 2013 at Conroe's MLK Jr. Park.

Williams' brother, Jaderian Williams, 22, pleaded guilty Friday to a first-degree felony murder charge in exchange for a 20-year prison sentence. Jaderian Williams also faced a capital murder charge – and could have been sentenced to life without parole – for his involvement in the shooting, although he was able to strike a deal with prosecutors.

Although the shooting took place in June 2013, it wasn't until December 2015 that the Williams brothers were indicted on capital murder charges. In a previous Courier article after the Williams brothers' indictments, Conroe detectives said the brothers had been suspects all along, but they had to wait for DNA evidence to return until they were able to seek the indictments.

Two others – Jerome Faggin, 21, and Markelle Lee, 21 – were charged with capital murder. Faggin pleaded guilty in June 2015 to first-degree felony murder in exchange for 60 years in prison. Lee's capital murder charge is still active, and he is expected back in court July 25 to either plead guilty or not guilty to the charge.

Faggin was the only suspect who was arrested soon after the shooting and was the person police believed actually pulled the trigger that night, according to Courier articles from 2013. Lee was charged by an indictment, which came down in September 2013.

In a 2013 Courier article, prosecutors said they believe Lee drove Faggin to the park with the intent to rob Ponce-Reyes.

Officers arrived at the park, located at 1001 MLK Place S., early in the evening of June 24, 2013, to find Ponce-Reyes in his vehicle, dead of an apparent gunshot wound.

Ponce-Reyes died at the scene, according to earlier Courier reports. Witnesses said Ponce-Reyes was in a physical struggle over a cell phone while seated in his vehicle and another man outside the vehicle. The man then pulled a gun and shot Ponce-Reyes, witnesses told police.

In 2014, while housed in the Montgomery County Jail, Lee was one of six inmates who allegedly attempted to escape from the jail. He is facing a state jail felony criminal attempt charge for that incident, for which he will be in court July 25. He is facing an automatic life sentence without parole if convicted of capital murder.